Toby Carley Obituary, Grantsburg WI Teacher at Luck High School Has Died

Toby Carley Obituary, Death On April 18, 2020, early in the morning, Howard Toby Clough, 93, of State Centre, who had lived in Garwin his entire life, passed away at the Iowa River Hospice Home in Marshalltown, Iowa. Howards immediate family will have private funeral services because of state regulations.

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Toby Carley Obituary, Death – On April 18, 2020, early in the morning, Howard “Toby” Clough, 93, of State Centre, who had lived in Garwin his entire life, passed away at the Iowa River Hospice Home in Marshalltown, Iowa. Howard’s immediate family will have private funeral services because of state regulations.

Friends of Toby are invited to post happy memories at www.mitchellfh.com. Donations in honour of Howard may be made to his family for a future designation. For further details, please contact 641-844-1234. In the care of Mitchell Family Funeral Home is Howard “Toby” and his family. Born in Kansas City, Missouri on November 19, 1926, Howard Dale Clough was the son of Glen and Mable (Westphall) Clough.

Howard was raised in Garwin, Iowa, along with his family. Up to the day he was drafted into the US Army, he attended school in the Garwin Community School District. On November 17, 1946, Howard was married to Maxine Starits on her family’s farm in rural Garwin after being discharged from the military. After starting their separate lives, the couple had six kids.

For more than 60 years, the couple resided in Garwin. Working for Pioneer Seed, Howard farmed the property and bred hogs and cattle. He spent his entire career working for the Tama County Assessor’s office and serving as the county’s weed commissioner for a while. In addition to being an active volunteer with the Garwin 4-H Club, Howard also belonged to the American Legion Post in Garwin, the Garwin Community School Board for 12 years, the Garwin Community Church, the Garwin Cemetery Board, and the Lion’s Club of Garwin.

For more than forty years, Howard had enjoyed coin collecting, fishing, and assembling the fireworks display for the city of Garwin. He loved playing cribbage, poker, and pepper. He was an ardent card player. His children are the ones left to remember and treasure his memory: Jane (Roger) Halleck, Ronald (Susan) Clough, Randall Clough, Jeana Clough, and Richard (Shelly) Clough; great-grandchildren:

Peyton Pope, Preston Pope, Logan Lang, Noah Lang, Oliver Lang, Olivia Sanders, and Jack Sanders; grandchildren: Todd (Rob) Pope-Sandquist, Tedd (Dana) Pope, Wendy (Joey) Lang, Troy Sanders, and Chris (Christine) Sanders. His parents Glen and Mable Clough, sister Carley Luethjie, wife Maxine, and daughter Jeanette Sanders all passed away before him.

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